Airship.



J. G. AMBROSE.

AlRSHIP,

APPLICATION-FILED SEPT-23. I918.

Patented Jan. 14,1919.

2 SHEETSSHEET LQQLSEML J. G. AMBROSE.

Amsauaj APPLICATION FILED SEPT-231918.

\ Patented Jan.14,1919.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- 1,-29Lmn JENNINGS GRANT AMBROSE, Gil llillliifl, CALEFORNIA,

AIRSHIR Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jana ill illitl.

implication filed September 23, 1918. Serial No. 255,36.

' 7 '0 all wiw m 2'15 may; concem:

Be it known that I, JnNNINos GRANT AM- BROSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented a new and useful Airship, oi which the following is a specification.

This invention IBlfiiJG-S to airships, one of the objects being to provide an airship having-a novel arrangement of lifting helicopters combined therewith aojacent the center of gravity for assistin in maii'itaining the airship at'a desired e ovation while in flight, there being means combined with the said Wheels for preventing the machine from bein turned out of its course by the action of t e Lwheels when elevating the machine.

Another object is to so locate the helicopters that they will not interfere with the soaring action of the machine.

A still fnrther' object is to provide a machine in which the bodyconstitutes a sustain ing plane.

Another object is to so locate the Weight of the machine below the center that, when the and partly in machine is in'flight, it will be balanced and there will he no danger of it clescentling out of control and first lVith the foregoing and other objects in view which .will ppe'ar as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details oi. construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and-gointed out in the claim, it being unclerstoo that various changes may bemade in the construction a-nol arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the not vantages of the invention as set forth in the appended claim In the accompanying drawings the proferreol form oi the invention has heen shown.

In said drawings- Figure 1 is a view partly in side elevation longitudinal section through a machine embodying the present improvements.

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I reference, 1 designates the oi the airship which can he Fig. 2' is a mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a plan view cit plan View of the propelling seems ancl' is provided with may suit wheels or pressure thereof against the line will thecornpletezhaare located below the icy characters of. machine able running gear body is fiat to constitute a sustaining plane and. erected ahove and connected to 'thehocly at siiitable points are sustaining planes 3 and 4 preferably arranged as shown with two superposed planes 3 in front of a single sustaining plane l. Rudders are arranged at the tail end of the body as shown at 5 anol 1 may be controlled n any manner desirett, as

The bottom of the.

wheel 8 secured, to'the upper end of a shaft Qjournaleiiin h'earina's 10 at the center of the float; Each shaftis adapted to receive motion. through gearsillf t from a shaft 12 whichentencls andsprocket mechanism 13"from t e shaft is of an engine 15 The shafts'of both liih" the engine in the ing'wheels are driven by same manner ancl any suitable era-ligament into the s"- ace between the fines and is (lI'lVeH through 0 can tit? of clutches may he provided tor coupling or uncoupling either or to the engine. it is not deemed necessary to show or describe the constitute old structures the present invention.

both of the shafts 152' clutches as they mer lyforming no t f Cliain anti sprocket mechanisin indicated I at 16 may he employed for transmitting inc tion from the eng ne shaft to a 1'7 egztcnchng. forward and adaptetlzto drive through gears 18, vertical shaft lfih'antl 20, the shaft 21 oi? propeller able form of clutch, not shown nears v 133 .5131257 stu the chi-- ployed forf'controlling thoiactuation of the.

propeller and this clutch, Welles theother clutches in the machine, can he oontrolleilby one or; series of levers 28 Arr-an Within the fines are so pitched that ii'zhen air is forced downwardly 'within'the lines by the rotating; Wheels '8, the I I offset the tendency of the machine to rotate'out of its course. -lhese line are particularly useful where only arrangement can he'employeti in small machines l't Will'he noted that theengine anti body planes 3 3235 l. The thus stabilized whi e in flight ancliia jpi eventecl from fallin filfifi first, shoultl control of the machine he lost.

While one engine has been referred it one one anti one wheel 8. are employed, anrl' which modified is to he 1ll](l('l 't()()(l that this i -r1n is to he considered broadly as a driving unit amt can consist of one or more motors eonneeted together or. if preferred. operating independently as hown. for example. in Fig '2.

What is claimed i An airship including a l)()tl having a fiat bottom and a winglilte rurred top constituting a sustaining plane. lilies extending through the hotly from top to hottozn thereof. an engine between the tines. a lifting Wheel within the upper portion of each flue,

a propelleix means driven by the engine for aetuating either or both the wheels and the propeller, and sustaining planes above the hotly antl in front and back of the fines.

in testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto atlixetl my signature in the. presence, of two witnesses.

JEXXIXUS GRANT AMBROSE.

Witnesses:

l. L. IIANSEN, 0. RICE. 

